NaturalReader

NaturalReader is a text to speech service from NaturalSoft Limited, a company founded in Vancouver, Canada. It converts text, PDFs, images, webpages and scanned physical books into natural sounding audio using AI voices, with a voice library covering more than 90 languages. The product is split into three lines. Personal is for listening to documents, with apps for web, mobile and a Chrome extension for reading webpages. Commercial is for producing voiceovers for videos, eLearning, training and podcasts, with a commercial license. EDU provides group and site licenses for schools, with features aimed at accessibility such as synchronized highlighting, dyslexia friendly fonts, OCR for printed pages and MP3 download, and Lite Voices that read offline. The vendor states that student data is never sold and that customer content is not used for AI training. The voices are described as built on large language models, with content aware delivery that adjusts to the tone of the text. Voice cloning lets a user create a multilingual voice from an uploaded or recorded sample. Optional AI study tools include AI Podcast, AI Recap, AI Screenshot, AI Chat and AI Quizzes. The home page offers a free start. For EDU, the vendor lists pricing starting at $3,300, based on total student count. Personal and Commercial plan prices are not shown on the home page.